title: Efficiency and loss mechanisms of plasmonic Luminescent Solar Concentrators.
abstract: Using a hybrid nanoscale/macroscale model, we simulate the efficiency of a luminescent solar concentrator (LSC) which employs silver nanoparticles to enhance the dye absorption and scatter the incoming light. We show that the normalized optical efficiency can be increased from 10.4% for a single dye LSC to 32.6% for a plasmonic LSC with silver spheres immersed inside a thin dye layer. Most of the efficiency enhancement is due to scattering of the particles and not due to dye absorption/re-emission.
authors.forename: Clemens
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Tummeltshammer
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: Alaric
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taylor
authors.forename: Anthony J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Kenyon
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Papakonstantinou